CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



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Memo. — If tlie full claim for the season of 1887, as set out in Exhibit 

 (D), be allowed, then the amount of this Exhibit, 5,410 dol. 85 c., will 

 properly ap])ear as a credit, and be deducted from the total of Exhibit 

 (A) of which it forms a part. 



No. 7. 

 "Anna Beck." — Seized hy United States steam-ship " Uiehard Rush," June 38, 18S7, 



For— 



Value of vessel 



Non-consumable outfit 



Passages of master ami crow 



Personal expenses of owner 



Legal expenses 



Probable seal catch, 1887—3,150, at 5 rtol. 'A) c 



Claim of owner, with interest at 7 per cent, to 

 date of payniont. 



Amount of 



claim as 



put forward 



by owner. 



$8, 000. 00 

 977. 50 

 4(i0. 54 

 250. 00 

 850. 00 



17, 325. 00 



27, 803. 04 



Evidence in support of claim. 



Two aflidavits of S.D. "Warren, &c. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



DECLARATION OF JAMES DOUGLAS WARREN. 



City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. 



I, James Douglas Warren, of the city of Victoria, in the Province of 

 British Columbia, of the Domiuion of Canada, master mariner and ship- 

 owner, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 



1. That I am the duly authorized agent of Thomas H. Cooper, of the 



city of San Francisco, in the State of California, one of the United 

 25 States of America, engineer, by i)ower of attorney bearing date 



tbe 4th day of jSTovember, A . d. 188<;, the owner of the hereinafter- 

 mentioned steam-schooner *'Anna Beck." 



2. That the said Thomas H.Cooper is, as I am informed and verily 

 believe, a British subject by birth, and has never renounced his alle- 

 giance to the Sovereign of Great Britain. 



3. That the said steam-schooner "Anna Beck" is a British vessel 

 since A. d. 1872, when she was transferred by purchase from the Kegis- 

 try of the ijort of San Francisco aforesaid to that of Victoria aforesaid, 

 and has since remained on the Registry of the port of Victoria. In 1883 

 the " Anna Beck" was rebuilt and raised, and in the winter of 1880-81 

 she was titted up with steam-propeller, and all the machinery and appli- 

 ances necessary for such a purj)ose. The cost of said steam-power and 

 rebuilding was over 8,000 dollars. 



4. 

 the sole manager of the said steam-schooner "Anna Beck." 



5. That on "the 21st March, A. D. 1887, the said "Anna Beck " sailed 

 from Victoria, having previously cleared iov that purpose, on a full 

 season's hunting and iishing voyage in the North Pacihc Ocean and 

 Behring Sea. On or about the 25th day of May then next following 

 the "Anna Beck" sailed from the west coast of Vancouver Island for 

 Behring Sea. On and for said voyage to Behring Sea the crew of 

 "Anna Beck" consisted of Louis Olsen, of the said city of Victoria, 

 master; Michael Keefe, of the same j)lace, mate; and twenty-one sailors 

 and liunters, with one sealing-boat and eight canoes, and a complete 

 outlit for a full voyage of hunting and Iishing in Behring Sea, 



That as agent, as aforesaid, of the said Thomas H. Cooper, I am 



